Posts made by Ghost

@Auspice I just had a vision of a 30 Seconds to Mars version of Hugh Hefner and it broke my brain.

@Meg said in RL Anger:

@Ghost I don't think you were trying to make a jab at her, by asking about what kind of tequila the woman was given. I do think you were making light of something that affects a lot of people on this forum, in a way that lightens it, when it doesn't directly affect you. So, yeah, that is offensive and hurtful, to me. Hence why I posted.

Absolutely. It was inappropriate and I'm sorry that I offended you. I don't believe that subject matter truly is funny, and it was beneath my character to make a joke around it.

@WTFE I think that there's been a misunderstanding about intent and something a bit more complicated here, but I've also been around this environment long enough to understand that trying to fight these things tends to cause more damage than taking a step back. So I'm just going to lay it out and truly take a step back from this in whatever dogpile shape it takes on.

While I'm not personally a fan of Cupcake for my own reasons, my response to her post here wasn't meant to be antagonistic and was in poor taste. I have no intention of being antagonistic towards her, nor anyone, but I also have really no intention of fighting against all of these theories about intent or what I meant or why I upvoted this or that, because truly, it's all gray area and it all just comes down to hearsay.

Now, even though I have my own personal reasons for not seeing eye to eye with Cupcake on a number of things, I'm not making things personal, or slandering, or throwing shit, or anything to that matter.

If what is wanted in this situation is not some kind of personal issue or antagonism, I don't think that name-calling and these theorized judgments is going to make the situation any better or deal with it in any meaningful way.

If Cupcake prefers that I butt out of topics she seems to be really digging in on? I'll totally honor that request. I've apologized for the off-color joke I made in response to the video she described, which truly was (when I wrote it) in the "WTF" sarcastic light, and not in any way intended to be laughing at abuse towards women or anyone.

Sometimes people don't get along, but the best I can do despite all of these interesting theories is assure you that my original intention was to no way jab at her, and that is still not my intention as I write this.

Now, if Cupcake would like to discuss this without turning this into a localized dogpiling session and work towards some kind of reasonable, lasting understanding, then please...shoot me a PM. I'm not in any sort of dick mode. I truly don't want any sort of conflict, but I'm honestly not going to partake in some kind of public shaming or dog-piling session that seems to have more of a purpose in causing damage and throwing shame than it does have more of a mature, truly peace-seeking result.

If you'd like to chat, Cupcake, hit me up, but on my mother's honor, I wasn't trying to fuck with you, and I'm not going to try to fuck with you.

Have a nice night.

@reimesu Look, you're her RL roommate and I see what you're trying to do, here. I stepped back and am not taking things to the personal level with her, and for whatever reason you've felt the need to get involved, I don't appreciate you taking an opportunity to try to make things personal.

She's your friend. I get it.

Her and I don't see eye to eye on all points, but let's not turn this into some kind of super personal attack internet drama. I made a dark humor joke out of context and backed out of the topic, and you're here trying to stir shit. We've maintained a respectful rapport for some time and I toed a level of discomfort, admitted to it, and stepped aside.

Enjoy your evening. You're looking for a fight. You're not going to get it.

@reimesu and yet in another thread we've been peacefully discussing whether or not someone gave personally identifying information about VASpider.

Stop trying to fabricate a spat.

@Roz Right, that's why I'm stepping back before it turns into a thing.

I'm not looking to make a comment I made in the spirit of sometimes you have to laugh to keep from crying to turn into myself or anyone being an outlet for the justifiable anger that should be felt from seeing that kind of abuse taking place.

My joke wasn't intended to make light of the abuse, I didn't make that clear, and in the interest of keeping things copacetic I'm stepping back from this thread for a bit.

I apologize if my joke, intention or not, was offensive to @Cupcake or anyone.

Carry on and have a better day. This week has been a nightmare so far.

I'm gonna step out of this conversation and not deal with you. Cheers.

@Cupcake said in RL Anger:

Edited to add: This wasn't some cutesie college game thing. These man were holding her down and prying her mouth open with their fingers. She was not enjoying herself by any stretch of the imagination.

And yes, thats fucked up and I hope those people wind up in front of cops.

@Cupcake said in RL Anger:

@Ghost said in RL Anger:

@Cupcake said in RL Anger:

So someone - a woman - on my Facebook posted this video of a woman being held down in a chair by a handful of men while they rubbed her lips with lime and then force-fed her a shot of tequila. According to my friend this "how the family plays" and that it was because she'd agreed to do the shot but then backed out.

She could not understand why I had such a horrified and angry reaction to the video.

...was it expensive tequila?

I'm glad you can find the humor in women being physically assaulted! There's not enough of that kind of humor these days.

Right, because I was clearly joking about the abuse as being something hilarious.

Don't start with the high horse thing.

@Cupcake said in RL Anger:

So someone - a woman - on my Facebook posted this video of a woman being held down in a chair by a handful of men while they rubbed her lips with lime and then force-fed her a shot of tequila. According to my friend this "how the family plays" and that it was because she'd agreed to do the shot but then backed out.

She could not understand why I had such a horrified and angry reaction to the video.

...was it expensive tequila?

@Shaggy I love that movie so much.

• Tokyo Ghoul
• Robotech
• Aliens: Colonial Marines
• Orville
• GI Joe
• Solid: The 1970s Blaxploitation RPG
• BPRD
• A semi-original kung fu setting

@Ganymede I love all of the catchy Pho place names around here, like "UnPHOGettable"

@Darinelle I like the Bolts. Tampa also takes very good care of the bolts and loves them.

@Meg I blame your being awesome on you all the time.

Is it okay to admit that I find myself oddly missing the Spice Girls lately?

@Meg told me to ask @Roz why we are talking about non-hockey in a hockey thread.

Jesus, people, move this OtherSportsball talk to Random Bitching.

@Ganymede said in The Hockey Thread:

I mean, they aren't the Flyers

Oh snap.

Yeah I'm not giving up hope on the players. They play their asses off and I have a lot of respect for them. I also think it was a bad call removing Dave Tippett as coach. The roster is a good roster, and now that their goalie situation is less chaotic they should have some movement. Duclair is solid. OEL is solid. They have some decent talent on the roster.

I think their keys to this season will be their need to adjust to a new coaching situation and whether or not the right decisions are made at key times in terms of roster decisions. All too often the Yotes bump up and down from the minors (to try new options) and lose players to waivers. They've got to be careful with that and not be afraid to give the backup goalie more starting time if the primary (such as Smutty with contract clauses) is in a slump.

HOWEVER, the Coyotes have a definite local problem. They're on the far corner of the Phoenix valley so ticket sales are tough, arena management is tough, lots of ownership rotation issues. If the Coyotes win, more ticket sales will help their financial situation, but you can't find Coyotes-branded mercy anywhere in town aside from mall stores that sell every team's jersies.

I hope they do well, I really do, but I'm somewhat a minority in my support for the team. A looooot of hockey fans in AZ usually only buy tickets when their teams are playing, such as my buddies from Buffalo only going when the Sabres are in town.

This really makes me love the players on the roster more, and feel great for them when theyre doing well, because for the most part theyre all playing in a hockey market that only notices them when they're on fire.

Is this like a Vampire Hunter Bloodlust type setting?

I finished Destiny 2's first raid this weekend...

It was like this for about 20 hours across 3 days...

Then...all of the sudden...

If they could only extract the brain fluid of someone at the point of beating a Destiny raid (for the first time) and turn it into a pill form...depression would be cured.

You have to do the parts in order until you beat it once, so here's the approximate # of tries it took for the maybe 6 different teams I played with across the weekend until finally beating Calus.

• Part 1: Royal Baths (25-30 tries)
• Part 2: Royal Gardens (50-60 tries)
• Part 3: The Games/Obstacle course (10 tries)
• Part 4: Emperor Calus (30-40 tries)

But I did it! GO FUCK YOURSELVES PEOPLE WHO DID IMPORTANT LIFE WORK, HAD SEX, OR IMPROVED YOURSELVES OVER THE WEEKEND.